Give Your Campaign Weird Gods
If you are running a D&D (or similar type) campaign with active divinities you cannot underestimate how enriching weird-ass, highly specialized, gods are. Every player in your campaign will have at least a vague concept of how one should engage with a god of Storms or Fire or Magic or whatnot.
They’re probably not ready for the living avatar of Cirque Maxime, the God of Spectacle, to decide that every mortal on the continent should bear witness to the party’s adventures with color commentary and reality-show interview segments with those involved, including those killed in the process.
They probably not ready for the consequences of offending Lady Brine, Goddess of Pickling (nor those of gaining her favor, I’d wager.)
They aren’t going to see it coming when the God of Forgotten Things begs their help returning a recovered treasure to obscurity to save the world, or when the God of Second Chances gives their vanquished foe a second go-round.
Even something as mundane as Ludos, God of Play and Toys can bring a strange new angle to the adventure, when the party finds out the traditional set of “Hero” toys made by the church for 300 years look exactly like them.
Or local gods of unreality weaving small hamlets into Lynchian border-worlds whose surreal puzzles must be teased out for one to escape.
Big, broad gods have a lot of power, but little specalized ones have to get clever and/or petty in delightful ways, and have a lot more incentive to interfere directly in the lives of mortals.
Fair warning to the DM. you are equally unlikely ot be ready for one of your players choosing such a god to worship. I should know, my Warlock’s patron is a Lovecraftian Ghost Pyramid scheme.
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